Jacob Kagi

The Australian Retailers Association estimates South Australians will spend $4.3 billion this Christmas, defying a national downward trend, but businesses say consumers are being thrifty with their shopping.

The deal between the University of South Australia and University of Adelaide, which comes after years of talks, will create a new institution with more than 70,000 students.

The death of 17-month-old Ronan this month is declared a major crime. No arrests have been made or charges laid. Here's a look at what is known so far. WARNING: This story contains details readers may find distressing.

SA's shipbuilders are on tenterhooks ahead of next week's AUKUS discussions, which will finalise an agreement around the future of Australia's submarine fleet. Here's why that deal is so important for South Australia.

Police say that just days before Cassius Turvey was chased and attacked, three of the people charged with his murder allegedly kidnapped another teenager. 

The most awkward of leadership spills will come to a head this morning, when West Australian Liberal MPs vote to decide who the best person is to lead the party back from oblivion.

Many of Australia's top baseball players are part-timers, working regular day jobs. They're about to face the 'Japanese Babe Ruth', a superstar as big as they come who is set to sign one of the largest contracts in global sporting history.

The upheaval at the Perth Wildcats continues, with head coach Scott Morrison announcing his resignation after just one season in charge to return to North America for "family reasons".

In the space of five years, the WA electorate has delivered three emphatic rejections of Liberals in the state. The clock is now ticking for them to turn things around, writes Jacob Kagi.

West Australians cast their votes at polling booths across the state spanning the state's 15 electorates, with Labor hoping to win at least two seats from the Coalition.

Coach Adam Simpson says as few as 17 listed players could be available for the game against North Melbourne, leaving the club reliant on state top-up players.

After almost two years of being closed off to the outside world, WA has finally thrown open its border. But as Jacob Kagi writes, WA Premier Mark McGowan's popular hard border policy did not come without sacrifice for some.

For the Western Force, it was the perfect news on the eve of its Super Rugby season — Western Australia's hard border would be down within weeks.

Western Australia's March 3 reopening comes with restrictions designed to minimise a growing Omicron outbreak, so how exactly will it work?

West Australians may be sceptical after the previous border plan was ditched, but this time the state should be opening for real.

At least three homes are destroyed by fires in Hopetoun and Jerramungup in Western Australia's Great Southern region.

Western Australia records 26 new local cases of COVID-19, with the source of six of those not yet clear.

A third Perth school records a case of COVID-19 just three days into the school year, with hundreds of students and dozens of staff ordered to isolate as the state records 17 new local cases. 

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, WA once again has been left indefinitely closed off to the rest of Australia and the globe. How did it come to this and what happens now?

The Premier's plan to reopen the state on February 5 lies in ruins, and there's a risk his border backflip could weaken the bedrock of public goodwill and have unforeseen consequences, writes Jacob Kagi.

A 19-year-old volunteer firefighter is accused of deliberately lighting multiple blazes, including one that sparked a major emergency on the outskirts of Perth on Boxing Day.

Perth's mask mandate and hospitality COVID-19 restrictions will remain for another week, with Western Australia recording one new case linked to an infected French backpacker.

Pictures reveal the scale of devastation caused by a blaze that ripped through Wooroloo east of Perth yesterday, with at least one home and several sheds burnt to the ground. 

West Australians thought they had another six weeks to get used to the idea of living with COVID, but an unexpected and unwanted early Christmas present may have changed everything, writes Jacob Kagi.

Things will change dramatically in Western Australia when the "island within an island" finally lowers the drawbridge to interstate and overseas travellers. Here's everything you need to know about the COVID rules and restrictions being introduced.